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The Professional Standard Office Committee of the Malacca Johore diocese organised a conference on July 22 to create awareness of the current challenges in the protection of minors within the Malacca Johore diocese .
The first speaker, Edelynn Wong is a legal practitioner and currently working in the Johor State Legal Adviser’s Office handling criminal matters. She explained the laws in Malaysia that have been implemented to protect minors. Her session covered the appointment and powers of Protector under the Child Act 2001, namely, taking of evidence, temporary custody and sheltering a child in a designated home and the power to order that a child be medically examined, treated and hospitalised.
Duty and responsibility are imposed on members of the family or child care providers to inform the Protector of any child abuse and failing to do so can result in an offence being committed. She said that many sexual abuse cases against children were initiated with a deliberate grooming process which was manipulative and gradual, used by the perpetrators to find the appropriate opportunity to build a relationship with not only the child but his/her surroundings and environment, establishing trust and control over a child while exploiting the child’s vulnerabilities to ultimately carry out the abuse.
Christopher Kushi is legally trained and a Legal Advisor to the Minor Basilica of St Anne and a Civil Law Associate in the Tribunal – Penang Office. His previous postings include Royal Malaysian Police Force , Malaysian Judiciary, Attorney General’s Chambers and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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